It was officially opened on 16 November 1996 by President Mary Robinson and Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum.

The mosque and cultural centre include a main prayer hall, a restaurant, a library, meeting rooms, mortuary facilities, Nurul Huda Qur'anic school, a youth club room, an events hall for sporting activities/conferences, administrative offices and a shop.

[citation needed] The ICCI was designed by the Irish architect firm, Michael Collins & Associates.

In late 1997, Imam Hussein Halawa and Mr. Nooh Al Kaddo oversaw the operations of the ICCI.

The current Executive Director of the ICCI is Nooh Al Kaddo, an Iraqi native who moved from Liverpool to Dublin in 1997 to run the Islamic centre.